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Mental Handicap Hospital: Issues of Primary and Psychiatric Care
Author(s) -
James A.,
Bouras N.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of the british institute of mental handicap (apex)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.633
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1468-3156
pISSN - 0261-9997
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-3156.1991.tb00644.x
Subject(s) - psychiatry , psychotropic medication , mental handicap , mental illness , primary care , medicine , general hospital , disturbance (geology) , psychology , family medicine , mental health , paleontology , biology
This article describes a five year follow‐up survey of severity of mental handicap, behavioural disturbance, psychotropic medication and psychiatric illness in residents of a mental handicap hospital in South East London. Levels of behavioural disturbance had dropped since the previous survey, and the vast majority of residents had no diagnosable psychiatric illness. Residents' medical needs are met by general practitioners with psychiatrists providing expert advice and treatment where necessary.